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JOHNSON v. COLLINS ENTERTAINMENT CO.

No. 24858.

333 S.C. 96 (1998)

508 S.E.2d 575

Joan Caldwell JOHNSON, Brice Anderson, Lorraine Witherspoon Baker, Faye Blaylock, Sara Edell Boan, Mike Brewer, Mike Brown, Ronald Callahan, Sandra Coulter, Lisa Crum, Andreas Drutis, Crystal Gayle Edwards, Darryl Bernard Epps, Buster Elfin Floyd, Deanna Kay Franz, William Joseph Harnett, Jr., George Henley, Loretta Jones, Margaret Locklear, Tammy Locklear, Linda McCleod, William McCormick, Hugh Meise, Patty Miller, Andrew Nobles, Gary Padgett, Mary Pinchback, Vardry Pittman, Albert J. Samra, Mason Skeenes, Danny Kaye Smith, Jim Stolz, Amber Strickland, Charles Stubbs, Lonya Thigpen, James Thompson, Joseph Chester Walker, Jessie Williams, Valerie Williams, and on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, and Charles Molony Condon, as Attorney General for the State of South Carolina, Intervenor, v. COLLINS ENTERTAINMENT CO., INC., Ace Amusement, LLC, American Amusement Co., Inc., American Amusement of Aiken, Inc., B & J Amusement, Best Amusement Co., Broyles & Lutz, Inc., CBA Games, Inc., Carousel Amusements, Coley, Inc., Drew Industries, Fast Freddies, Great Games, Inc., Greenwood Music Co., Inc., H & J of South Carolina, Inc., Holliday Amusement Co. of Charleston, Inc., Hoyts Music Co., Inc., Huckleberry Amusement, Inc., Ingram Investments, J.M. Brown Amusement Co., Inc., Joytime Distributors & Amusement, Larry Wolfe Amusement, MHJ Corp., MHS Enterprises, Inc., Martin Coin Machine, Inc., McDonald Amusement Co., Midlands Gaming Corp., Orangeburg Amusement, Inc., Pedroland, Inc., R.L. Jordan Oil Co. of North Carolina, Red Dot Amusements, Rosemary Coin Machines of Florence, Inc., Scott's Vending Inc. of Columbia, Sumter Petroleum Co., Tim's Amusement, Inc., Video-Matic Amusements, Inc., H. Hugh Andrews, II, Pamela A. Andrews, Dwayne I. Bohannon, J.M. Brown, Don E. Broyles, Grace E. Coley, Fred Collins, J. Samuel Cox, Kenneth G. Flowe, Carey Hardee, Scott G. Hogue, Lowell E. Holden, Patricia Holliday, Warren P. Holliday, Henry E. Ingram, Steven E. Lipscomb, Tim Mahon, Jimmy Martin, Jr., Cynthia McDonald, James McDonald, Allan Schaefer, David R. Simpson, Ron Simpson, Mickey H. Stacks, William Darwin Wheeler, Hershel L. Williamson, and A.J. Wilson, Jr., in their individual and corporate capacities as representatives of all others similarly situated, Defendants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided November 19, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilburn Brewer, Jr., of Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard, of Columbia; Lawrence Edward Richter, Jr., and Saul Gliserman, both of Richter Law Firm, of Mt. Pleasant; Robert R. Bridwell, of Columbia; Richard Mark Gergel, W. Allen Nickles, III and Carl Lewis Solomon, all of Gergel, Nickles & Grant, of Columbia; Joseph Preston Strom, Jr., and Tom Young, both of Strom & Young, of Columbia; and Richard K. Walker, of Phoenix, Arizona, for Plaintiffs Joan Caldwell Johnson, et al.

Attorney General Charles Molony Condon, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Deputy Attorney General Zeb C. Williams, III, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Robert Dewayne Cook, Assistant Attorneys General Reginald I. Lloyd and Christie Newman Barrett, all of Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, for Intervenor the State of South Carolina.

Oscar William Bannister, Jr. and James W. Bannister, both of Hill, Wyatt & Bannister, of Greenville; Robert E. Blakely, of Notre Dame, Indiana; and Timothy Clayton Youmans, of the Collins Companies, of Columbia, for Defendant Collins Entertainment. Zoe Sanders Nettles, Dwight Franklin Drake, Robert Bruce Shaw, Benjamin Rush Smith, III and C. Mitchell Brown, all of Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, of Columbia; A. Camden Lewis and Mary Geiger, both of Lewis, Babcock & Hawkins, of Columbia, for Defendants American Amusement Company, et al. David E. Belding, of Columbia, for Defendants Red Dot Amusements, et al. Timothy Gene Quinn, of Columbia, for Defendant Carousel Amusement. Richard A. Harpootlian and Robert G. Rikard, both of Richard A. Harpootlian, P.A., of Columbia, for Defendant Coley, Inc. David E. Taylor, of Columbia, for Defendant B & J Amusement. Anne Sumner Douds, of Kiker & Douds, of Beaufort for Defendant Ingram Investments. John C. Lindsay, Jr., of Lindsay & Lindsay, of Bennettsville; and J. Boone Aiken, III, of Coleman, Aiken & Chase, P.A., of Florence, for Defendant Pedroland, Inc. Matthew A. Henderson, of Henderson, Brandt & Vieth, of Spartanburg, for Defendant R.L. Jordan Oil of North Carolina.

FINNEY, Chief Justice:

This matter is before the Court on certification from the United States District Court to answer the following questions.

1. What are the factors to be considered and standards to be applied in determining whether a particular type of activity is a lottery as prohibited by the South Carolina Constitution? 2. Do the Type II and Type III machines constitute lotteries in violation of the South Carolina Constitution?

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